During a rally in Arizona on Saturday, former President Donald Trump repeated his lie that the 2020 election was stolen and made other false claims about the pandemic and the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year. Here’s a fact check.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Florence, Ariz., Jan. 15, 2022. (Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
State officials have defended their guidelines by citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which show that Black, Hispanic and Native Americans are about twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than white Americans. A spokesperson for New York state’s Department of Health told Fox News that race did not disqualify patients from treatment but that the guidelines instead considered race as one risk factor.
Vanity Fair reported that Trump had floated the 10,000 figure to the acting defense secretary at the time, Christopher C. Miller, the night before Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump’s loyalists stormed the Capitol in a bid to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. According to Miller, Trump had suggested 10,000 National Guard troops were required to contain the crowd he anticipated for his rally that day.
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